2024 Istanbul mayoral elections
Metropolitan Municipality
2024 Istanbul mayoral election ballot 2024 Turkish Mayoral elections held on 31 March 2024
Istanbul , Turkey's largest city, held mayoral elections on 31 March 2024 as part of the 2024 Turkish local elections .[ 1] Ekrem İmamoğlu was re-elected.
Background and candidates Ekrem İmamoğlu of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP); İmamoğlu, when elected in 2019 , became the first non-AK Party mayor of Istanbul in 25 years.[ 1] [ 2]
On 7 January, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , President of Turkey and leader of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), announced its candidate, Murat Kurum .[ 1]
Başak Demirtaş , the wife of imprisoned pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) leader Selahattin Demirtaş announced her intention to run but later withdrew.[ 3] Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) named Murat Çepni and Meral Danış Beştaş as its joint mayoral candidates, with the final decision on who would lead to be left in the event of them winning the election.[ 4]
Campaigning Both İmamoğlu and Kurum have pledged to implement infrastructure projects to reinforce buildings against earthquakes and to ease chronic traffic congestion in the city.[ 5]
Incidents On 10 February, gunmen opened fire at a campaign event in the Küçükçekmece district municipality for AK Party mayoral candidate Aziz Yeniay, critically injuring one person. Seventeen people were arrested in connection with the attack.[ 6]
Results
Metropolitan municipality mayoral election
Overall results Candidate Party Votes % Ekrem İmamoğlu Republican People's Party 4,438,727 51.21 Murat Kurum Justice and Development Party 3,431,871 39.59 Mehmet Altınöz New Welfare Party 226,731 2.62 Azmi Karamahmutoğlu Victory Party 183,901 2.12 Meral Danış Beştaş DEM Party 183,827 2.12 Mehmet Satuk Buğra Kavuncu Good Party 54,241 0.63 Birol Aydın Felicity Party 48,897 0.56 Emre Berk Hacıgüzeller Homeland Party 14,860 0.17 İdris Şahin Democracy and Progress Party 11,417 0.13 Burhanettin Aktürk New Turkey Party 10,407 0.12 Mustafa Aytaş Rights and Freedoms Party 8,769 0.10 Cihan Erdoğanyılmaz Independent Turkey Party 8,534 0.10 Orhan Gökdemir Communist Party of Turkey 7,408 0.09 Nesim Pakır Democratic Left Party 5,273 0.06 İbrahim Okan Özkan Patriotic Party 4,904 0.06 Vedat Taylan Yıldız Independent 4,748 0.05 Umut Çınar Motherland Party 2,992 0.03 Osman Tekin Anatolian Unity Party 2,185 0.03 Hasan Hüsnü Güner Nation Party 2,025 0.02 Ziya İncedere Communist Movement of Turkey 1,951 0.02 Muharrem Mutlu Justice Unity Party 1,827 0.02 Merve Karataş Independent 1,652 0.02 Ishak Akbay Independent 1,263 0.01 Hüseyin Işık National Path Party 1,135 0.01 Hülya Kavuzlu Karaman Independent 1,090 0.01 Adem Bayraktar Independent 970 0.01 Vedat Öztürk Independent 889 0.01 Galip Menteşe Independent 782 0.01 Osman Çelik Hearth Party 699 0.01 Memet Ali Aydoğmuş Independent 332 0.00 Fatma Ragibe Kanıkuru Loğoğlu Independent 279 0.00 Abdullah Arli Independent 260 0.00 Sena Elest Akıncı Independent 243 0.00 Orhan Çebi Independent 232 0.00 Habip Aksu Independent 203 0.00 Bilen Akpınar Independent 192 0.00 Yaşar Polat Independent 187 0.00 Burak Emre Çetin Independent 185 0.00 Cemal Tarancı Independent 180 0.00 Güven Akıcı Independent 179 0.00 Polat Erdoğan Independent 160 0.00 Atakan Bozyayla Independent 154 0.00 Yüksel Özden Independent 152 0.00 Ömer Karvan Independent 148 0.00 Ahmet Soytürk Independent 140 0.00 Hüseyin Durmaz Independent 136 0.00 Mirhat Tekin Brusk Independent 127 0.00 Uğur Etlik Independent 119 0.00 Ahmet Birikmen Independent 111 0.00 Total 8,667,694 100.00 Valid votes 8,667,694 96.63 Invalid/blank votes 302,683 3.37 Total votes 8,970,377 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 11,314,534 79.28 Source: Supreme Election Council of Turkey
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Reactions President Erdoğan acknowledged the AK Party’s defeat in Istanbul and other cities but said that it would mark "not an end for us but rather a turning point", adding that he would respect the result. Speaking to supporters in Saraçhane [tr ] , İmamoğlu said that “our citizens' trust and faith in us has been rewarded".[ 7]
References
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